HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
June 20th, 2021
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa
June 6th, 2021
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.
HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
March 28th, 2021
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
HoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano
January 3rd, 2021
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
December 6th, 2020
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.
HoP 322 - Do the Math - Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
April 7th, 2019
Mathematics and the sciences in Byzantium, focusing on scholars of the Palaiologan period like Blemmydes and Metochites.
HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
March 25th, 2018
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.
HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators
June 4th, 2017
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.
